A Healthy

You! By Cara Sheppard

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Your Mission

GRAINSVEGETABLE

SFRUITS OILS MILK

MEAT & BEANS

Imagine life without junk food!  What if there were no more potato chips, chocolate, or candy in grocery stores? The only choices of what to eat would have to be healthy food from the food pyramid.  Would you be able to plan a balanced meal using only the food groups as your choices?

Learn more on the next

slides…

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A Question In Mind…Our class is going on a picnic in the field. Your job is to plan a healthy lunch menu for your classmates. Before creating a menu, think about this…

Which foods will help you to have a balanced diet?

With this question in mind, you will explore which foods help your body work best. Your end goal will be to complete a menu of healthy foods for the picnic!

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Gathering Ideas… On the next slide, you will

watch videos and read about having a healthy diet. You will find important “power” foods that give you energy and keep you strong.

Choose foods from the

different food groups that help your body. You can use this graphic organizer, a printed organizer, or post-it notes to gather your thoughts. You will use these ideas to create your menu.

Remember to choose a balanced diet that includes each food group!

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Using Resources…In order to create a

menu of healthy foods, you need to learn which foods help your body.

Click the links to learn which

foods make you healthy!

Then, write your Then, write your ideas on your ideas on your organizer!!!organizer!!!

Learn why eating right is important with Moby and Annie in BrainPop

Learn the food groups of the food guide pyramid with Moby and Annie in BrainPop

Explore the Food Guide Pyramid with Kids Health.

Your Final Product… Now that you have learned about making healthy choices and maintaining a balanced diet, you must create a menu using Kidspiration for the class picnic.

Click on the picture below to begin.

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Dairy

My Balanced Meal Fruits and vegetables

Fats, oils and sweets

Meat, fish and eggs

Bread, cereal, rice and pasta

2 Plan a balanced meal by

moving foods onto the lunch

tray.

1 Drag foods into the

correct food groups.

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Challenge Yourself!

You are on your way to making healthier and smarter choices in life because you are what you eat!you are what you eat!

Do you like to play games? Click the blue links below to apply what you learned about

making healthy food choices!

Match Foods from the Food Groups in QuintriciousDiscover a variety of combination foods in

Food Force OneChoose the right foods to create a balanced meal

with Lunch-O-MaticFind healthy foods to Feed the Alien

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Food For Thought…(for teachers… )

Classroom Objective: (This lesson should be completed in a one-hour class period)

• Students will classify foods into groups according to My Pyramid in order to create a balanced meal.

Aligned to the Maryland VSC (for Second Grade)• Standard 6: Nutrition and Fitness

• 6.F.1.a.- Classify foods into groups according to My Pyramid. • 6.F.1.c.- Illustrate a serving from each food group.

Differentiation• Allow students to work in partnerships to complete the assignment• Provide extended time (Use 2 one-hour class periods if need be)

• Provide students with books if they are having a difficult time using the computer• D.W. the Picky Eater by Marc Brown• Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell• Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

No technology? No problem!• If your computer lab isn’t available or you are having technical difficulties, simply click the icon to

open the document, print the document for each student and have students hand-draw their menu. Use the resources from the county textbook Your Health to read about a balanced diet.

*All pictures and images were sourced from Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Online.

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